Who Are You Calling ‘Rock Star’?

Enough already, says culture critic Carina Chocano:

A cursory search of the Internet reveals that people and things referred to in the media as ‘‘rock stars’’ include Rand Paul, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone, the Swedish mystery writer Camilla Lackberg and Pope John Paul II. Clearly, it’s high time we bought the term a watch and retired it.

—“On Rock Stars and ‘Rock Stars,’” New York Times Sunday Magazine, March 31, 2013. (The article is a bonus feature available in the replica edition to subscribers only. Here’s the accompanying article about business “superstars.”)

Comments

[Alina]

This term has become overused and abused. Just reading the title reminded me of this brilliant commercial from Intel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMlWbTqwkdU, which ends with "Our rock stars aren't like your rock stars".